Expressive Fingerstyle Guitar: Advanced Techniques and Tunes

Course details

The Smooth Guitar course teaches 5 key techniques for advancing as an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist. These techniques free both hands and allow you to unlock open tunings to write more expressive and memorable music. The course teaches 5 tunes to demonstrate the techniques, and provides tablature and performance of 7 challenging pieces.

The techniques are:

• Celtic ornamentation
• Cascading right-hand picking
• Combined picking and strumming
• Partial barre chords in open tunings
• Percussive thuds

The DAAEAE tuning is used to demonstrate a universal approach to any new tuning. The rational for note selection and chord construction is described with accompanying chord and scale charts.

The course is designed to open doors to new techniques and ideas. For anyone looking for new challenges on the guitar, a fresh approach to song-writing and technical advancement, this course is ideal.